Top Software Engineer Jobs in Munich

Principal Software Engineer responsible for solving complex platform and infrastructure challenges, defining multi-year architecture, and leading foundational initiatives across the software platform. The role focuses on APIs, abstractions, system architecture, scalability, software quality, and engineering velocity. The engineer will identify architectural bottlenecks, drive initiatives from design through deployment, serve as a technical escalation point, build consensus across teams, and mentor engineers.

Develop and support scalable MES applications, reporting solutions, CI/CD pipelines, and event-driven integrations for global manufacturing operations. The role involves Java and SQL development, troubleshooting integrated systems, root-cause analysis, documentation, process improvement, and collaboration with engineering, DevOps, and manufacturing teams.

Implement and ship Storage Encryption Everywhere in Firefox’s Gecko engine. Responsibilities include schema migrations, encrypted data storage, integration testing, Web Platform Tests, Gecko tests, code review, specification clarification, release shepherding, and fixing correctness, performance, and regression issues across Nightly, Beta, and Release channels.

Diagnose and verify long-tail Firefox WebCompat bugs, reproduce and triage site-breakage reports, write WebCompat interventions, and implement simple AI-assisted fixes. The role turns reported browser compatibility issues into actionable or resolved bugs using web development skills, browser DevTools, and cross-browser debugging.

Analyze anti-bot and bot-mitigation systems, identify how websites detect and block scraping activity, and develop repeatable testing and bypass approaches. Build a greenfield agentic environment for evaluating anti-bot behavior, contribute to backend systems at scale, investigate complex incidents, and communicate findings clearly. The role requires deep web protocol knowledge, strong Node.js, TypeScript, and Python skills, scientific problem-solving, AI coding agent proficiency, and independent execution in a remote-first team.

Senior Software Engineer to design and implement C++/Python software, accelerate workloads with CUDA, develop and maintain Linux kernel modules and system services, optimize system and GPU performance, manage Linux systems, mentor junior engineers, and integrate AI technologies across products.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for designing, building, and operating distributed market data systems. The role focuses on real-time blockchain data ingestion, streaming, normalization, storage, APIs, reliability, data correctness, observability, incident recovery, and production support. The engineer will lead technical decisions, mentor teammates, translate ambiguous requirements into designs, and use AI-assisted development throughout the software lifecycle.

Design, build, and operate scalable Java and Spring Boot backend services across mobility products and shared platforms. Lead cross-team architecture and technical initiatives, improve reliability, observability, performance, security, testing, and developer experience, and collaborate with product and engineering teams. Mentor engineers and use AI-assisted development tools responsibly in a cloud-native Kubernetes environment.

Own the architecture, development, reliability, and delivery of latency-sensitive provisioning and licensing systems. Build Java and Spring Boot services, contribute to self-managed and on-premise platform solutions, and deploy tooling using Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and containerization. Collaborate across engineering and business teams, shape technical strategy, maintain scalability and latency SLAs, implement comprehensive testing, and document systems and processes.

Develop and own guidance, navigation, and control systems for an orbital launch vehicle. Responsibilities include architecting navigation systems, tuning algorithms using flight data, monitoring flight and ground integrity, managing vehicle GNSS applications, and conducting GNSS integrity studies. The role requires expertise in inertial navigation, Kalman filters, GNSS testing, spoofing and jamming resilience, MATLAB, Python, C++, and technical documentation.

Owns end-to-end test strategy, designs scalable backend and UI automation frameworks, integrates automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, performs exploratory testing, and advocates for testability and reliability across engineering and product. The role requires strong programming, Kubernetes and distributed-systems knowledge, debugging ability, and cross-functional ownership in a fast-moving startup.

Own technical direction and hands-on execution for major products and systems. Design scalable, reliable architectures across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure; write code; lead architecture decisions; solve production issues; improve engineering quality; drive critical initiatives; and mentor engineers across teams. The role is fully remote and requires strong English communication in a distributed international environment.

Design and develop the core vCluster Platform, focusing on Kubernetes internals, tenant isolation, container orchestration, and scalable resource-sharing systems. Build high-performance Go software, own features from technical design through release, solve complex systems-architecture problems, and contribute to open-source projects. The role requires autonomous technical leadership, active collaboration with the Kubernetes community, and experience in high-growth startup environments.

Design and build the vCluster Platform using Kubernetes internals and Go. Own features end to end from technical design through release, solve complex systems architecture problems, contribute to open-source projects, and develop scalable tenant isolation and resource-sharing solutions. The role requires autonomous technical problem solving, strong Kubernetes expertise, and participation in a high-growth startup environment.

Develop and maintain scalable engineering processes for Camunda 8, improving CI/CD, release health, dependency management, build efficiency, and developer experience. Lead AI-assisted engineering automation, including release management, dependency updates, and CVE remediation. Partner with infrastructure, software engineering, and leadership teams to identify workflow friction, implement engineering best practices, and optimize development velocity through metrics-driven improvements.

Own and design high-impact components of Chainguard's container image platform. Build and improve image build systems, tooling, and services at scale. Drive technical direction, participate in roadmap planning, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor engineers to raise engineering quality.

The Senior Software Engineer will enhance the core product by developing features and tools for Chainguard Images, collaborating with teams and ensuring product quality.

Build and maintain high-performance differentiable simulation software for open and closed quantum systems using Julia and Python. Develop model-learning, parameter-inference, neural-network PDE-solving, and optimisation methods. Benchmark research methods, improve performance and reliability, collaborate with university faculty, publish results, supervise students and interns, and contribute to teaching materials.

Design, develop, and operate scalable data and backend systems for ingesting, processing, storing, and serving engineering and operational data. Build APIs, pipelines, data products, and ETL/ELT processes; contribute to data architecture, quality, governance, observability, and documentation. Collaborate cross-functionally and mentor less experienced engineers while working with streaming, time-series, analytical storage, cloud data platforms, and event-driven architectures.

Design, implement, test, and ship Firefox security and hardening features for enterprise users. Improve browser security architecture across operating systems, including privilege isolation, trust boundaries, cryptographic protocols, WebPKI, and security-sensitive APIs. Investigate security issues, resolve root causes, and improve reliability, performance, memory usage, and correctness in a complex multithreaded codebase.

Develop and test flight software for the Nyx spacecraft, including subsystem requirements, software modules, unit tests, integrated tests, and spacecraft simulator components. Collaborate with avionics, propulsion, and GNC teams while applying embedded programming, debugging, CI/CD, real-time systems, communication protocols, and safety-critical software practices.

Design and implement large-scale browser-based rendering infrastructure to execute and extract structured content from JS-heavy web apps. Improve rendering quality, performance, cost, and throughput at internet scale and productionize rendering research.

Develop and test a full robotics stack for automated guided vehicles, including simulation, navigation, localization, perception, behaviors, and tooling. Tune systems on physical robots, troubleshoot hardware, networking, and electronics issues, and collaborate with fleet management and client R&D teams. The role is based on-site in Munich three days per week and includes occasional deployment travel, with potential future team leadership responsibilities.

Build and ship backend features for enterprise Coder deployments, including database migrations, observability, reporting, auditing, security, scalability, and reliability improvements. Investigate production issues, resolve operator problems, document designs, participate in code reviews and RFC discussions, and join on-call rotations. The role requires professional Go development, concurrency knowledge, SQL expertise, debugging ability, and strong communication.

Build and operate backend pricing systems for real energy contracts. Responsibilities include designing the Pricing API, consolidating pricing logic, improving quote speed, implementing error handling and observability, creating alerting, explaining pricing failures, and supporting live incidents. The role requires production Python backend experience, FastAPI, SQL, data-heavy systems, end-to-end project ownership, and AI-assisted development workflows.